Samsara BioCapital

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

131

Average round size

104M

Portfolio companies

95

Rounds per year

16.38

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

33

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Samsara BioCapital works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Samsara BioCapital, startups are often financed by Alta Partners, Skyline Ventures, SV Health Investors. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redmile Group, EcoR1 Capital, Cormorant Asset Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UBS Oncology Impact Fund, Redmile Group, EcoR1 Capital.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Clinical Trials, Health Care. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ElevateBio, ElevateBio, AlloVir For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesMedtech
Stage focus
GeneralistSeedSeries ASeries BSeries C Show 1 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
131
Lead investments
9
Exits
33
Rounds per year
16.38
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (120)
  • Health Care (67)
  • Therapeutics (50)
  • Pharmaceutical (41)
  • Medical (35)
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Investments by region
  • United States (109)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Canada (5)
  • France (1)
  • Denmark (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
69M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.75
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Enlaza Therapeutics 30 Apr 2024 Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 100M United States, California, La Jolla
Upstream Bio 02 Jun 2022 Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 200M United States, Massachusetts, Waltham

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